I am the typically iritating 'social smoker'. In that i only tend to smke when im drinking or really stressed/bored. As such it varies greatly how much i smoke in a week depending on whether or not i go out and whether or not i go to a club.

At a guess i suppose on average i probably smoke less than 20 a week, although being as i smoke roll ups (cheaper, means i smoke less in total as when im pissed i cant be bothered/arent able to roll) its hard to get an exact figure.

I smoke. Probably about ten-fifteen a day, a lot more when I'm in the pub having a beer. I enjoy it, and I have no particular desire to stop. In fact, I'm going to have a fag right now. Mmmm.

Thats because I would killer you!

i don't smoke and i don't mind people smoking. people who smoke are mostly considerate and don't try and give you cancer.
can't say the same for some cunts who blow the smoke right in your face though. thats just plain rude.

Like it was only when you smoked that you didn't care for other people's feelings, Raz!

Au contraire.

Every 100th cigarette or so is just perfect.

*stop thinking about cigarettes, stop thinking about cigarettes...*

Smoking can get you laid....

I don't and Thatcher- yes social smokers are irritating but only when they're your friends crashing fags

only smoke when been drinking.
quite like smokers really.

*smug*

erm... Jules was logged in... thougt i was a woman for a second then (just got back from work). Anyway...


*Smug too*

My mum died of cancer aged 48. My aunty died of cancer aged 47. My grandad was so breathless he couldn't walk for 10 years then died of emphysema. My grandma died of cancer. My other grandma can't breathe well enough to walk from one end of a room to another whenever she gets a cold but refuses to stop smoking. I'm glad my dad and other grandad don't smoke so I have some relatives left.

I have had to stop going to gigs in certain venues (Metro, Windmill, that place on guitar alley I forget the name of) because every time I go to them I have to have about 6 puffs of ventolin to stop coughing enough to stand up, which tend to make me enjoy the bands rather less.

I hate coming home from gigs and stinking of other people's smoke. I hate having to breathe in everyone elses tar and I hate sounding like an old man coughing up phlegm the morning after I've been to a gig.

We had a lecture the other day about smoking cessation. There is plenty of proof that smokers are more stressed every day because of the constant need to take in more nicotine. When you give up your stress level goes up for a few weeks but falls below the baseline because the physical cravings go away, although you may be saddled with psychological cravings for years.

Smoking kills half of the people that do it and 1,000 people a year in the UK that don't. Smoking causes kids to develop asthma and it's basically a tax on the poor of this country as about 3x more poor people smoke than rich people, and the government makes about 7 times more from tax on cigarrettes than it spends on treating the effects of it.

Tobacco companies agressively promote cigarettes to third world countries, with glamourous names like ambassador, without the health warnings they have to put on packets here.

Yeah, smoking is really reeeeaaallly cool.

I've gained a stone in weight since i gave up... it is hard, but i'd rather be slightly over-weight than still be a smoker!